Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A posture-maker; an acrobat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who postures.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
postures
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who behaves in a manner calculated to impress or mislead others
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Examples
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Just do us all a favor and take down your blog first. -- perish the thought that this might be motivated by the wounded vanity of a posturer and a phony who really does care deeply about acclaim.
How Not to be a Writer Hal Duncan 2009
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Just do us all a favor and take down your blog first. -- perish the thought that this might be motivated by the wounded vanity of a posturer and a phony who really does care deeply about acclaim.
Archive 2009-01-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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His group of harumphrodites all tittered at this, and the fat posturer waved his gold-tipped cigarette, well pleased with his insolence.
Watershed 2010
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If only Napoleon were only a vain posturer with a gift, for seducing the loyalty of his betters.
He Don't Know Him 2010
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Gee, I wonder why Obama, the anti-political posturer, disowned Wright today.
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(CROSSTALK) JEFFREY: Either's he's a political -- political posturer, or he and Rick Warren are absolutely on the opposite ends of the two most morally significant ...
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To revive his flagging spirits, Crystal signs on for a cattle drive through the Southwest with his two best buddies, Phil (Daniel Stern), a sad-sack grocer trapped in a ghastly marriage, and Ed (Bruno Kirby), a macho posturer newly married to a much younger woman.
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I wonder if that was the same posturer i saw on my park slope to manhattan commute who was stretching his quads while pedaling,one arm stetching one leg, kinda a yoga on wheels thing, going impressively slowly against traffic on tillary
The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Weirdness BikeSnobNYC 2008
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“I think Kansans deserve someone with prosecutorial hands-on experience, not a posturer.”
Think Progress » O’Reilly Says CAP Is “A Very Well-Oiled, Effective Character Assassination Machine” 2005
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It is ironic that Clark invokes Socrates, a thinker rather than a posturer with whom today's students are unlikely to spend more than a fleeting moment.
'The Decline & Fall of Literature': An Exchange Clark, Michael P. 2000
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